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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1913
Page
5
Eddie Fenton helps his sick mother by reading from the Bible and praying for help. He earns 50 cents and an orange, then Christmas brings a generous neighbor who delivers a cooked turkey, stockings, clothes, and a doctor, proving faith answered.
A 1912 letter from Henry Prins describes a five year old girl with a lip and cheek eruption resembling ringworm. The condition caused restlessness and school removal until Cuticura Soap and Ointment relieved symptoms over several months. The ad promotes Cuticura products and free samples from Boston.
C G Larrabes of Lamson Bros. Grain & Commission announces annual roundup and dinner in Chicago on Monday January 5. The event celebrates the firm's fortieth anniversary with a cabaret, toasts, congregational songs and broad attendance from Lamson managers nationwide. Larrabes plans to depart the Saturday before.
The Brethren church will host a Christmas program at 7 o clock this evening. C M Blough leads congregational singing, Lyman Eby gives the invocation, Paul Henderson recites Wellcome, and readings and gift presentations follow from various departments and groups including Helen Saylor John Hoffman and the Girls Junior and Boys Junior. Readers for the intermediate and senior gifts categories are listed among the participants.
An afternoon meeting of Crescent council No. 16 Royal and Select Masters conferred the rank on twenty three candidates. Grand Master W. H. Norris of Manchester and visitors from Cedar Falls and Waverly attended. Officers for the ensuing year were named: Thrice Illustrious Master F A Lee Waverly, Right Illustrious Master Thomas Libby Waterloo, Principal Conductor of Work Walter Shield Waterloo, Recorder A T Peterson Waterloo, Captain of the Guard R B Slippy Waterloo, Conductor of the Council F L Biges Waverly, Steward A A Morford Waterloo, Sentings F J Huntley Waterloo.
In Des Moines Iowa on December 23 a Trinity Methodist member was expelled after refusing to withdraw his name from a saloon petition. Pastor Rev E M Evans accepted his resignation and the congregation sustained the action. Evans had the member sign a withdrawal form and four other signers recanted while a fifth refused. A Christmas program was held Wednesday at First Baptist Church at 7 30 PM with all welcome.
Daniel De Villiers of San Antonio was shot dead by Roy L. Glover a wealthy land agent in the dooryard of the Glover home. The motive centered on the former wife Mrs De Villiers Glove r who said she divorced De Villiers and married Glover in October. Witness Charles Spielman reported De Villiers confronted Glover shouting You broke up my home as three shots rang out. De Villiers died minutes later with an undischarged pistol found nearby. De Villiers was a former Boer War commander.
Miss Fanny Turen, city librarian, notes a remarkable increase in November circulation and books added compared with 1912. Home loaned books rose by 1 477a, 142 new volumes arrived, 45 were withdrawn, eight readers registered. Two new helpers to start next year. Both divisions close at noon Christmas Eve and all day Christmas.
F A Moore, a clerk at Pinkerton grocery on Fourth street west, found a four and a half foot snake coiled around a banana stem. The snake was carried outside to die in the cold, revived indoors, kept for display, then slain. A nearby ad promotes Mauch's hand painted china and gifts at 106 Hast Fourth street.
A Waterloo observer known as Prof. M. E. Hoar predicts weather by clothing. Since 1887 he notes rain with an umbrella, summer by a straw hat, and freezing by black hats and overcoats, detailing conditions from zero to above freezing.
Anna Miller transfers two lots in Galloway Waterloo to Francis Miller for 1. G. W. Hazlett referees deed to Mary E. Messinger for lot 1 block 7 Ricker & Bratnaber Water Co addition at 900. WaterlooChautauqua Institute transfers lot 4 block19 division A Cedar River park to B T Pressnall for 275. Wilhelm Schultz sells lot 18 Maywood Waterloo to J H Williams for 350. Several transfers from Waterloo Loan & Trust Co to Security Savings Bank for small parcels at 1 each. Edward Riley sells lot 6 Troxel subdivision Waterloo for 10. Caroline Clark Leavitt sells lots 3 block 6 Mansons 3rd addition Waterloo for 1.
An old fashioned musterole advertisement touts its white mustard oil ointment as quick relief for croup, colds, rheumatism and more. It claims no blistering and offers 25 cent jars and a hospital size, with mail order to Cleveland and a testimonial from H. I. Buchanan of Lowellville, Ohio.
Des Moines reporters note four objections filed by the drys to the saloon petition. They accuse missing precinct poll lists and improper certification, assert many signatures were gathered on Thanksgiving, and contend an early November signup with December filing violated a thirty day canvass. The Polk county board later limits each side to one checker during canvass.
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